--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

>
> vestrinang wrote:
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@> wrote:
> >> At 06:00 PM 7/09/2009, you wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm using firebird for several months now.. I installed it on a CentOS box, from a rpm package. I'm successfully conecting from my Windows boxes, I managed quite complicated stuff in a database, but I cannot find the *.fdb file on my CentOS filesystem. There is no "mydb.fdb" file (assuming my database is named mydb, which I use in my connection strings) on the CentOS filesystem. Did an "updatedb" under root, then "locate *.fdb", "locate mydb", locate "mydb.fdb", etc, but no results (besides the examples.fdb and help.fdb files).
> >>> Where on earth is my fdb file?! The log files are not of any help on this issue.
> >>> I created my database in IBExpert, on the Windows client side, did not use iSQL + CREATE DATABASE on the CentOS console. In firebird.config, DatabaseAccess is set to the default (full I assume).
> >> What connection string do you use to connect from your Windows boxes?
> >>
> >> ./heLen
> >>
> >
> > server.name/port:mydb (I have dns server running, also)
> >
> > "locate" did not help me, even after "updatedb", but..
> > "find / -name 'mydb' -type f" did help me.
> > I found my file in the /tmp directory.. I understand that was the current directory (for the fbserver, I assume) at the time when the create database was sent, as long as I did not specify a path (and neither the extension).
> > I think that, for the newbie user, there should be a default "reasonable" location for the newly created databases, when no path is specified, for example a directory named ~firebird/databases
> > Also, IMHO, alongside with the default database directory, the default DatabaseAccess should not be full.
> > In order to move the database to a more suitable location, I suppose now I should back it up from the current location and restore it to my desired one.
> > Thank you very much for your timely responses :)
>
> Having just been through the exercise of checking all this stuff on
> Fedora 11, I can partially agree. But the problem is one for the Linux
> distribution rather than Firebird, since it is THAT which messes up the
> normal installation of any project :(
>
> There *IS* a default "reasonable" location and you have alrady looked at
> it with the employee entry in alias.conf - add your own entry here for
> 'mydb' and just copy the employee location or use something more
> suitable for you. Both windows and linux will them access the same
> database without needing to know WHERE the database is actaully saved ...
>
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Indeed, that is what I just did. I also changed the DatabaseAccess to None, so that only aliases are allowed, and never mess up with file locations.